Olive Crest

Foster care, residential and adoption programs: Olive Crest recruits, trains and certifies foster family homes from the community to provide warm, secure, and therapeutically safe environments for foster children. Foster children and parents are provided ongoing therapy, training, and support services. The residential program provides the community care facilities to the children.

Education & other programs: Olive Crest provides a non-public school for abused, neglected, abandoned and learning disabilities children. Individual education plans are designed and implemented for each child by a professional multi-disciplinary team whose goal is to transition each student back into the appropriate public educational setting as quickly as possible. In addtion to the academic instruction, students are given vocational training when appropriate. Other programs provide the independent living skills to youth adult for the transitional housing placement and foster care remote sites.

Mental health services programs: the goal of mental health services is to provide high quality and effective care that will lead children, youth, and families to healing, wholeness, and stronger relationships with one another. Mental health staff are integrated into Olive Crest programs and provide such specialized, culturally competent services as crisis intervention, therapy, substance abuse treatment, psychiatric assessments and medication management.

Family preservation and wraparound programs: Olive Crest provides parent education, counseling, and case management services to help strenghthen families and keep them together. The wraparound program serves children and families by providing a family-centered, strengh-based planning approach to help children in a home environment rather than residential care.